The use case: how Postmates deploys Stripe Payments
Postmates, an on-demand delivery marketplace, uses Stripe to process payments at checkout, run recurring and courier payments, and improve card authorization rates. It also uses Stripe's Card Account Updater and Billing Smart Retries to recover failed or outdated card payments.
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In the last year, over two million cards were automatically updated on Postmates leading to an additional $60 million in revenue.
Adaptive Acceptance alone was responsible for increasing Postmates’ revenue by $11M in the last year.
Postmates used Smart Retries to recover more than 200,000 payments last year, leading to over $3M in additional revenue.
In the 12 months since the A/B test, Postmates has seen an additional 2.16% uplift in authorization rates with Stripe, generating additional revenue exceeding $70 million.
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In the 12 months since the A/B test, Postmates has seen an additional 2.16% uplift in authorization rates with Stripe, generating additional revenue exceeding $70 million.